Dave Edwards: Gary O'Neil paid the price for Wolves' ill-discipline

After the game on Saturday, it felt like Gary O'Neil would have to leave.

Fosun had given him as much time as they could have done, and I feel the fans would have wanted it to work for O'Neil. 

But unfortunately, the numbers do not lie. The lack of wins and the number of goals they have conceded have not been good enough, and neither was the performance at the weekend. 

It was really poor from Wolves in the game, and after it - with the events that unfolded on the pitch.

You just got the feeling that something had to change, and the only thing you can tweak at this moment in time is the manager. 

And that is why there was a sense of inevitability about it, but I am disappointed for O'Neil. 

Post-match the scenes at the end are completely unacceptable. There is emotion and then there is stupidity. 

That fits into the stupidity category and it was just the same against West Ham when Mario Lemina did what he did at the London Stadium. 

Those things have become all too frequent for Wolves with Jose Sa going into the crowd a few weeks ago and the incident with Rayan Ait-Nouri and Matheus Cunha on Saturday. 

A different voice in the dressing room might add some discipline for this group of players which is lacking in several departments at the moment.

I do not feel the players let O'Neil down from an effort point of view. They always put in 100 per cent - they worked hard for him. 

It was more the application of that effort which let the manager down. When you concede so many goals as a player you have to take accountability for that.

They have not downed tools for him. He has had their backing the whole way through it. 

But unfortunately for O'Neil, he has been let down by the lack of defensive quality they have had in the team. 

When a new manager comes in you feel like you have to prove yourself all over again, and that will be the case if it is indeed Vitor Pereira that comes in as it is being reported.  

There will be players who will have always played under O'Neil because of how they have done in recent seasons. 

So it is a clean slate for everyone and you are desperate to impress the new manager so that naturally lifts the intensity of training. I expect the players to apply themselves 100 per cent in training and get behind whatever the game plan is for the new manager. 

For Wolves, they will need to hit the ground running under the new boss as they have not picked up the points they would have liked to in the last four games. On Saturday, It was really flat after the opening five minutes of the game. Ipswich had a lot of control and they got their goal.

But Wolves did not do enough to get the crowd going in the first half. I cannot remember a song being sung in the first period apart from the chants towards the board. 

They had nothing to sing about really. They got the goal, and for 10 or 15 minutes Molineux was bouncing, and they should have taken their chances. 

They attacked in numbers, but when it all broke down you just had Tommy Doyle on his own in the centre of the pitch. 

It turned into a basketball match, and that gave Ipswich more of a chance. Wolves had gone for it, and the winner did not come, by the closing stages, they had nothing left to give.